What are Safe Streets?
If you’d like to learn more about a particular issue, or if you’re just curious about how to make our streets safer, fairer, and more sustainable, we’ve gathered a variety of resources here to get you started. This list is certainly not complete, and the information we’ve gathered is not definitive; this just scratches the surface!
What We’re Reading
Angie Schmitt, Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Speed Limit Design Guide
This comprehensive set of design guides helps to lay out how to determine appropriate street speeds and other relevant factors.
Mike Lydon, Tactical Urbanism
Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, and policy-makers seeking to drive lasting improvements in their cities and beyond. These quick, often low-cost, and creative projects are the essence of the Tactical Urbanism movement. Whether creating vibrant plazas seemingly overnight or re-imagining parking spaces as neighborhood gathering places, they offer a way to gain public and government support for investing in permanent projects, inspiring residents and civic leaders to experience and shape urban spaces in a new way.
Transportation Alternatives, The Case for Self-Enforcing Streets
A report from New York-based transportation safety and justice group, Transportation Alternatives. The report lays out their vision for streets whose design and use of automated enforcement replaces the need for armed traffic police to intervene.
New Haven Complete Streets Design Manual, here.
This fantastic manual was signed into law in 2010, and yet little has been done to enact the changes prescribed within.
Zoning 101
The Safe Streets Coalition held a Zoning 101 Workshop with Anika Singh Lemar to cover the history and basics of zoning in our city. It was recorded on Tuesday, January 19 at 6 PM (link to the right). Anika Singh Lemar is a lawyer and Professor of the Yale Law Schools' Community and Economic Development clinic. At this informal workshop, Anika provides a general introduction to zoning ordinances, an overview of New Haven zoning, and then walks us through a zoning analysis for a particular parcel.